Category Archives: Miscellaneous

RegEx’ing C++ So I thought I was on to something using expandable macros to create complex regular expressions. I managed to defined an expression that recognised C++ class definitions and match these throughout all my C++ code (I still had to write all the DUnit tests). So what am I talking about. In a previous… Read More »

C++ Books So a number of weeks ago I asked a question on G+ about peoples preferences for buying technical books (hard copy, soft copy or both). The reasons I asked was that I wanted to buy a number of books to re-learn C++. I originally (tried) to learn C++ back around 2000 and I… Read More »

If there are any of you out there who run a WordPress blog and do not have WordFence installed (here’s free and paid versions), please go and install it now to ensure you website is well protected. I’ve had 3 separate attempts today to access my blog: 1 from the UK (disappointing), 1 from the… Read More »

Object Pascal to C++ I’ve updated my page on converting code from Object Pascal to C++ Builder. I’ve added a content pane hyper-linked to the sections in the document, a document version so you can easily know whether the page has changed, added a number of updates based on comments that I’ve received and added… Read More »

Because I’ve started to develop more applications using C++ Builder (mainly internal utilities) recently I’ve created a reference page (Object Pascal to C++ Builder Coding) to document all the information I’ve found regarding how to achieve some particular aspect of coding which I might take for granted in Delphi but which I either didn’t know… Read More »

I’ve just finished today reading Nick Hodges book Coding in Delphi and I have to say its a very thought provoking and cracking read. I don’t profess to know all about Delphi and after a few years away from coding was on the look out for some reading material to catch up on things. This… Read More »

I’ve just returned from 3 weeks cycling in America and am starting to get my head back into work and coding. I have a number of topics for articles to write. Some of the works is already under way so stay tuned. On a more unfortunately note I had to close commenting on my web… Read More »

Printing Layout I don’t know if any of you have tried to print this blog out since I changed the theme a few months ago but I did notice that it wasn’t print previewing in Firefox properly (it didn’t use the full width of the screen). I’ve spent a little time debugging this with the… Read More »

For some time a friend of mine has been writing a number of utilities that sit inside Excel that need to recurse directories for information. He has used the DIR() function and we found that it doesn't like being called multiple time on the stack. We worked around this by storing the sub-directories that needed… Read More »

VBUnit – The Poor Man's VBA Unit Testing Tool Over the last few years I' got into unit testing in the Delphi environment. Its one of the reasons I developed the Integrated Testing Helper IDE add-in. Although I love Delphi language, I sometimes have cause to fall back on VBA in the office applications. I… Read More »